Michele Venne's Blog, page 18

Shifting

I received the audio files from the narrator! I’ve spent hours every day this week listening and making notes on what she needs to edit. I still have 10 chapters to go, and the deadline is Sunday. After hearing someone else read my story, I picked up on a few writing tics. I didn’t detect them in all the edits I’ve done on the story, even when I read it aloud. The words don’t interfere with the...

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One Month Done

Big news #1: I received an email that the narrator finished reading Of Art and Air, and I have ten days to review and approve the recording. I started today, since I have a deadline. I’m reading the pdf I sent the narrator as I’m listening to her read. So far, so good. I’m interested in how the rest of the process will go. I plan to have Findaway Voices distribute my audiobook and have it...

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Rain

It appears it’s possible for time to pass quickly and slowly simultaneously. The days tick by, but my time spent writing speeds through. And when I look at what I’ve written, I’m not content with my progress. At 2K words/day on my main project, I should be pleased. I’m adding to the story. The plot is moving along. Occasionally the dialogue is funny or spot on. But I can’t see the forest through...

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The Heat is On

The heat is on, and so is the self-imposed pressure! I vowed I would stick as close to my schedule as possible this week. As a result, I made progress on all my projects, but still did not accomplish everything. And this give me the opportunity to practice grace, self-love, and forgiveness. I made the greatest gains on The Bookie, recording about 8,000 words. In terms of the timeline of the story...

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Insight

With years of schedule making under my belt, I thought I had this 3-month plan ready to go. What I didn’t account for? Life. Ha! Every day, I’ve had a meeting or errands or an appointment. Or course, my schedule is now off. I need to decide how to make up the time or adjust the days I have left. To add to the mess, I tried, again, to schedule specific projects on specific days during certain times...

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Ideas

This week started my 3-month plan. Mostly. Each day I had a project to do that wasn’t on my schedule. Tomorrow will be the same. My plan might already have gone awry because I forgot to include “life” in my schedule. Ha! But I’ve still managed to log time with my nonfiction project and my fiction project. I’m having second thoughts about the administrative task I’ve set up for this week.

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Three-Month Plan

I spent a couple of productive hours with my writing friend today. She brainstormed with me about titles and tiers and the future. I came prepared with a list! I read off my thoughts on serials for Patreon. She gave me ideas regarding not worrying about keeping the crime stories under 5,000 words. It’s a lot to squeeze in to so few pages! We talked about other projects, something I always have a...

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A Tease

I’ve been jotting notes about a 3-month plan. This includes shuffling file folders, story starters within those folders, writing sticky notes about groups of stories that could be serials or novellas or another novel series, eyeing 3 nonfiction projects, and doing a little research and a whole lot of thinking about tiers for Patreon. What I don’t have a lot of are behind-the-scenes tasks.

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Holding Pattern

This is kind of what my mind is like, and my calendar, and my soon-to-be-added-to to-do list. My paid gig is closing down, just another 7 days. Lots will be happening around August, none of which I’m in control of, but I can make decisions once I know if something will happen. More waiting until September/October. While I’m waiting, I’ll be adding to my calendar and to-do list about projects to...

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Mindset

If we pay attention, I think we’re given opportunities to look inside ourselves. Creativity is an example. I’ve been struggling with this current story. Studying myself, I wonder if it’s because I’m composing on the computer instead of a spiral, which has always been my first step. Maybe it’s because I’m too far removed from this series, as I published book 1 last year. Perhaps I’m writing for the...

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